PSYCHOTHERAPY
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What is Psychotherapy? Psychotherapy can be considered an alternative healing therapy that involves learning to increase self awareness in order to realize maximum human potential, thereby helping us to live more authentically with improved relationships, professional and financial successes, balance and grace. Psychotherapy is a general term describing many specific types of therapy such as talk therapy, narrative therapy, psycho-social therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy and counseling. Psychotherapy treatments are commonly used for psychological problems on an individual basis, with couples, families and groups. Forms of communication used in psychotherapy healing can include writing, artwork, music and dramatic theater. A psychotherapy practitioner may be a psychologist, marriage and family therapist, occupational therapist, counselor, psychiatric nurse, licensed clinical social worker or psychiatrist.
What we refer to as psychotherapy medicine has been practiced as far back as ancient Greece. It is thought that the first recorded use of psychotherapy was performed by Dr. Josef Breuer. Dr. Breuer would go on to be a close friend, teacher and collaborator with Sigmund Freud. Dr. Breuer observed a woman who suffered from paralysis felt better after she ‘talked’ to him about her symptoms. It is thought Sigmund Freud employed this ‘talking cure’ form of treatment and later created what we refer to as ‘psychoanalysis’ in Vienna, Austria in 1881. A trained neurologist, he began working with patients who were classified as hysterical. He continued practicing psychoanalysis into the 1930’s. His psychotherapy treatment work was later built on by Karl Jung, Anna Freud and Otto Frank among others. In the 1940’s, pioneer Carl Rogers brought forth a humanistic approach which rose to prominence by the 1950’s. Psychoanalysis, humanism and Ivan Pavlov’s work in behaviorism laid the cornerstones for teaching psychology in the United States today.
Psychotherapy is an alternative healing therapy that is a constantly growing. Today there are over 450,000 licensed psychotherapists in the United States. General research shows that the average length of psychotherapy treatment is between 6 and 10 sessions. It has been reported that Americans spend about $55 billion on psychotherapy annually.
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When You Hear Your Partner, Are You Listening?
by David McCann, Ph.D. & Janis McCann, Ph.D. The art of listening is the heart of communication. We believe that if we do not come together and listen to one another, we cannot have a healthy culture. But if we do sit down and listen to one another, we can remake the world—one relationship at a time.   Editors Spotlight
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Listening to music is one of the most common ways we manage our stress and emotions.
"If I felt better, I would want to exercise." This may be true. However, we have to get you into that state of feeling better. A more helpful (and also true) statement is, "If I exercise I will feel better." If you want to get picky about it (I have very smart clients who are very good at keeping me on my toes), the most accurate statement might be, "If I exercise it's very likely I will feel better. But if I choose to sit here and not exercise, I know I won't feel any better, and it's likely I will feel worse..."
The Anxiety Disorders Association of America reports one in eight children suffer from anxiety disorders. Without intervention, they're at risk for poor performance, diminished learning and social/behavior problems in school. Because anxiety disorders show up differently in children, parents and teachers can't always identify them until the child hits the breaking point...
I believe there is a very clear causal relationship between love addiction and teenage pregnancy, abusive relationships, promiscuity, and the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. In my opinion, treating the love addiction will result in a lower occurrence of these problems...
Over the years, as an intern and then as a I licensed therapist, I have worked heavily in the fields of abuse, trauma, addiction, and grief/loss. With individuals, couples, and families, I largely relied on two approaches: Client Centered and Cognitive Behavioral methodologies. For most of my clients, their journeys were met with healing and levels of recovering that enabled them to navigate with a more whole and well sense of being. However, as far back as 2003, I began to feel that there was more left unsaid, more left unfinished...
In the house on Bayard Street piles of bony fear hide in dusty corners. Behind the ghostly outline of a couch a young soul, nose to knotty-pine paneling,waits to be retrieved...
Although I have training in several very effective psychotherapy and hypnotherapy methods, I am continually in awe of the healing power that lies, not in any specific technique, but within the client-therapist relationship itself. By allowing myself to be truly present with my clients in a state of loving consciousness...
He is a psychiatrist.
We want to discuss the art of listening, which we believe is at the heart of communication, and is also what makes up a civilized culture. We believe that if we do not come together and listen to one another, we cannot have a healthy culture. But if we do sit down and listen to one another, we can remake the world—one relationship at a time... 
